RESOURCES

Make Practice Easier: Tools for Success

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Take advantage of our library of tools and resources to assist your family's journey within the Edmonton Suzuki Piano School program. We hope you can find resources and tools that help ensure that your home practice environment is optimized for effective learning and that practices are engaging and motivating for your students. If you are looking for additional resources, please contact us.


Resource Documents

Practice Tools

Listening Resources

ESPS Teacher Eleanor Tsui has recorded Volume 1 songs hands separate and together. The Helping Hands Series for Suzuki Piano Book 1 can be found free of charge on a number of platforms: Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and Deezer

ESPS Lending Library

ESPS teachers maintain lending libraries with CDs, books, and even DVDs available for families to borrow. Arrange to borrow a book or a CD from your teacher for a bit of inspiration!

  • Books:

    • The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

    • Mindset, by Carol Dweck

    • The Piano Book by Larry Fine

    • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

    • My Thoughts on Piano Technique by Haruko Kataoka

    • Thoughts on Suzuki Piano School by Haruko Kataoka

    • Introducing Suzuki Piano, by Doris Koppleman

    • A Suzuki Parents' Diary, or How I Survived my First 10,000 Twinkles, by Carroll Morris

    • The Suzuki Concept, Edited by Elizabeth Mills and Sister Therese Murphy

    • Helping Parents Practice: Ideas for Making it Easier, by Ed Sprunger

    • To Learn with Love, by William and Constance Starr

    • Ability Development from Age Zero, by Shinichi Suzuki

    • Nurtured by Love, by Shinichi Suzuki

    • The Law of Ability and the "Mother Tongue Method" of Education, by Shinichi Suzuki

    • Where Love is Deep by Shinichi Suzuki

    • More Than Music Lessons by Merlin Thompson

 
 
 
 
“Don’t hurry don’t rest. Without stopping, without haste, carefully taking one step at a time will surely get you there.”
— Shinichi Suzuki